Lanise Antoine Quotes

Please-tame me!' he said.
'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.'
'One only understands the things that one tames,' said the fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.'
'What must I do, to tame you?' asked the little prince.
'You must be very patient,' replied the fox. 'First you will sit down at a little distance from me-like that-in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

A goal without a pan is just a wish. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It's much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule. ~ Antoine Laurain

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way. ~ Antoine Fuqua

He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see ... '
I answered, 'Yes, of course. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them ... Happiness doesn't lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

No one hated these ghost of mine, no one envied them, no one pestered them. Nor did anyone love them with the only love that matters. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun. ~ Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince.
"So that I may forget," replied the tippler.
"Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him.
"Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head.
"Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.
"Ashamed of drinking! ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

To live is to be born slowly. it would be a little too easy to borrow ready-made souls! ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ~ Antoine Rivarol

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

No one is ever satisfied where he is ... Only the children know what they're looking for ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought. ~ Antoine-Henri Jomini

Without big words, how could many people say small things? ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends on our minds. ~ Antoine Thomson D'Abbadie

...In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body when me. It's too heavy"
I said nothing.
"But it will be like an abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth;
One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps. ~ Pierre-Antoine-Augustin De Piis

Once again I have rubbed shoulders with a truth without fully comprehending it. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. ~ Antoine Rivarol

There is nothing more glorious - nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity. ~ Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. ~ Antoine Rivarol

At night, you'll look up at the stars. It's too small, where I live, for me to show you where my star is. It's better that way. My star will be...one of the stars, for you. So you'll like looking at all of them. They'll all be your friends. And besides, I have a present for you. He laughed again.
'Ah, little fellow, little fellow, I love hearing that laugh.'
'That'll be my present. Just that...'
People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You though, you'll have stars like nobody else.
'What do you mean?'
When you look up at the sky at night, sincle I'll be living on one of them, since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!
And he laughed again.
...And it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of little bells that know how to laugh. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery